Founded in January 2012 by Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, and Brant Lyon, great weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable, the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the innovative...

We are based in New York City and showcase both national and international writers. As well as publishing the highest quality poetry and prose through anthologies and solo collections, we organize numerous in-person and online readings, performances, and book releases in New York City and across the country. Take a look at our Events page for latest news. Find us on the first Thursday of each month from February 1, 2024 at the historic Park Theater in Hudson NY.

Submissions for our yearly anthology are open October 15th to January 15th.

Want to know more? Take a look at the December 2021 spotlight interview from Three Rooms Press, the Writing Remix Podcast (hosted by the USC Writing program in January 2021), and Mary Mackey’s interview, Great Weather for MEDIA Press Does More For Authors. Spoken Word New York says "This group of kick-ass editors does more for NYC literary arts than most editors in big-wig publishing companies."

Editors:     Jane Ormerod      Thomas Fucaloro     David Lawton    George Wallace     Mary McLaughlin Slechta

Jane Ormerod

is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press), and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant, AND/OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Post (BLANK), Sensitive Skin, The Nervous Breakdown, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now splits her time between New York City and Hudson NY. She has performed extensively across the United States and beyond, and has recently begun exhibiting her artwork. Jane is the recipient of a 2020 NYC Acker Award in publishing for her contribution to the avant-garde community. (Photo credit – Jay Franco.) Interview | Website 

Thomas Fucaloro

is the author of two books of poetry published by Three Rooms Press, most recently It Starts from the Belly and Blooms. The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he has been on four national slam teams and was the grand slam champ for the Advanced Slam. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of great weather for MEDIA and NYSAI Press. Thomas is a writing coordinator at the Harlem Children's Zone and lives in Staten Island. (Photo ©kristopher-johnson.com.)

David Lawton

is the author of Sharp Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press). David is a graduate of the theatre program at Boston University, where he was also a Guest Artist in the graduate play writing classes taught by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. For ten years he was a background vocalist in the New York underground band Leisure Class. At the band's de facto headquarters in the Chelsea Hotel, he befriended Beat godfather Herbert Huncke and San Francisco poet Marty Matz and was inspired by their embodiment of the written word. (Photo credit – Herb Walton.)

George Wallace

is editor of Poetrybay, Polarity, and Poetryvlog, and has edited lit-mags for more than twenty years. A poet, performer, and 30-year veteran of community newspapers, he is writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and teaches writing at Pace University in Manhattan.

Mary McLaughlin Slechta

is author of the poetry collection Wreckage on a Watery Moon and two chapbooks. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Pedestal, Red Savina Review, and Main Street Rag.

LYNDSEY ELLIS

is a fiction writer and essayist. Her writing appears in The Offing, Joyland, Entropy, Shondaland, and several anthologies. Her debut novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books), was published in spring 2021. Lyndsey was a valued member of our prose editorial team from 2020 to 2023. Please buy her book!Website|Video|Interview

jerry T. johnson

is a poet and spoken word artist whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He regularly features at venues throughout the New York City area and currently lives in Danbury, Connecticut with his wife Raye. You may follow Jerry’s work via his website, and on facebook and twitter. Jerry is part of our special events team.

Mercy Tullis-Bukhari

is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who focuses on the woman experience through individuality, motherhood, and sexuality. Mercy was named one of the “8 Authors Bringing Afro-Latina Stories to the Forefront” by Remezcla magazine and was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2016 and 2018. Mercy’s third collection of poetry, The Little Deaths, was published by Get Fresh Books Publishing in 2023. We welcomed Mercy as a host at our New York City series, Spoken Word Sundays which ran for ten years at NYC’s Parkside Lounge.

Brant Lyon

wrote poetry, short fiction, music, and was producer/host for Hydrogen Jukebox, a NYC reading series pairing poets with an improvisational band. His poetry collection, You Are White Inside, was published by Three Rooms Press in 2011. Other publications include a chapbook, Your Infidel Eyes, (Poets Wear Prada, 2008), and the spoken word/music CDs Beauty Keeps laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me and Brain Ampin’. Brant passed away May 12, 2012. An enthusiastic founding editor of great weather, he is sorely missed.

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